These forums are maintained by an individual with limited funds and limited time. Just how much critical private information do you feel you have stored on these forums that would be at risk if someone sought to access it? While the web may be moving to full encryption, priority should be given to sites which store private, personal information, which is not really a valid description of the information you were asked for to register on the forums.

I think we are past the priority stage, the trend to full encryption is almost finished, with over 70% of web traffic on Desktop already being encrypted. It's not even primarily about personal information anymore.

Lurtz wrote:I think we are past the priority stage, the trend to full encryption is almost finished, with over 70% of web traffic on Desktop already being encrypted. It's not even primarily about personal information anymore.

Why is encryption of forums a "safety must have"? I have TERRIBLE problems with all these now encrypted websites that have absolutely zero need to encrypt.

I've been coming here since 2003 and I have never experienced any safety issues here due to non encryption of the forums, but I sure have been blocked by Fx at certain sites which worked fine NON-encrypted but encrypted recently and now cannot be reached. At least my home site allows us to use it NON encrypted if we wish and I have set that in my preferences there.

To me, it is a safety issue for bank sites and a few others but the race to encrypt the entire internet is a race to keep users from being anon if they wish.